Gilgamesh and Guantanamo: D.C. Theater Explores the Spoils of War
On a recent May night, on two stages in Washington, DC, two separate demigod kings suffered and grew wise. At Constellation Theater , Gilgamesh fluttered the sleeves of his royal raiment and ordered a boy jailed, a toe cut off each day and sent to his father. Gilgamesh is the tale of a cruel man-god transformed by grief. In verse and the first produced play written by Pultizer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, wit…
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